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The FFT Crew discusses Week 16 winners and players, believe it or not, and more!

0:00 Intro

1:00 Biggest Winners

8:13 Biggest Loser

12:40 Injuries, News, and Notes

15:22 Early Waiver Wire

17:55 Megaduds

23:58 Leaderboard: QBs and RBs

31:50 Leaderboard: WRs and TEs

36:05 Almost Touchdowns

37:50 Bills-Chargers

38:55 Steelers-Bengals

41:55 Browns-Texans

43:02 Vikings-Lions

47:15 Packers-Panthers

51:30 Falcons-Colts

54:24 Seahawks-Titans

55:48 Jets-Commanders

59:00 Bears-Cardinals

1:00:30 Jaguars-Buccaneers

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I started Raheem moard I started ET I started DJ Moore well I had a good year oh my best team they all just took a big Christmas dump today but anyway just terrible well merry Christmas everybody how wey look at me I’m gonna sing how we doing David Jamie wonderful yeah we’re

Doing great Christmas spirit is alive and all three of us and hopefully at everybody watching and listening around the world and hopefully everybody was a good boy or girl this year and you got what you wanted which is a ticket to the fantasy finals yeah hopefully got that

So much to still be determined right we have three big games coming up on Monday so I’m sure a lot of people are in limbo right now but uh if you’re watching thank you so much Merry Christmas happy holiday is if you’re just listening thank you for you know taking time out

On your holiday to to listen to our show we really appreciate it and we’re going to start with our biggest winners and biggest I also tried to write a Night Before Christmas poem but I only got six lines in so yeah and the dog doesn’t

Want me to read it anyway so um but maybe I’ll Uh David has muted his see David is usually at the office on Sunday night but I needed to go late tonight because I was having a Christmas party so Dave and Jamie are up late with me and I appreciate that anyway biggest winner well I’m just going to give the biggest

Winner for for you know for everyone and it’s Amari Cooper oh my gosh he was started in 73% of leagues which is a little wonky because you know a lot of people have been eliminated but Amari Cooper has his fourth 200 yard game of the season and it’s 11 no no no that’s

Iner of his career right it’s 11 catches two yeah well you know what I did you drank too much eggnog with some stuff in it I erased um the most important document that I have and I put your marriage certificate today’s note I put Today’s Show notes on

My week 16 document which is a huge blunder on my part absolutely terrible I lost 20 hours of work um so that really sucks oh God and I’m freaking out right now so I’m going to see how many times I can hit control Z to try to make

Everything come back but anyway Amari Cooper guys your thoughts on 265 yards two touchdowns at we have a dog barking and you lost all of your notes this this is terrible oh God all right merry Christmas everybody yeah I I say for us for podcast of the [Laughter]

Year yo I enough wondering about what to do with Amari Cooper um he’s certainly susceptible to having a bad game but the way that Joe Flo’s throwing the way that the Browns are leaning on him and and the way that he gets a lot of targets I think he’s a slam dunk wide

Receiver to for the fantasy finals yeah absolutely and um it’s gonna be interesting to see what happens with him next year you know I think we obviously have to start at this point looking ahead to what 2024 looks like and can he do this with deshun Watson and will they

Allow him to do this with DeShaun Watson mostly from deshun Watson standpoint so I hope it’s not a uh situation where as he’s getting closer to 30 and the quarterback change impacts him in a negative way but we’ll probably overlook him again we’ll probably rank him too low again and he’ll probably deliver

Another solid season he’s actually entering a contract here next year and before we get on to next year he does play the Jets next week it doesn’t matter I I I to lean the same way yeah yeah I mean it’s really not the best situation but

You’re not sitting him at this point I think it’s really you’d have to be loaded at receiver to sit him yep you’d have he’d have to be have Dorian Thompson Robinson as his quarterback to sit him that’s that’s his Crypt Tonite all right so who’s the biggest non Amari

Cooper winner I know who the Biggest Loser is it’s me but uh it’s Bree Hall all right yeah but we were starting Bree Hall anyway I don’t think there were many people that were like debating starting or sitting Bree Hall unless they were just like again loaded at that position I’ll go I’ll

I got lot questions I’m sure you guys did too I got a few but not I don’t know not enough I to your point uh earlier in the week Adam you know there there are teams that are really loaded you know in in 12 and 10 team League playoffs and there are

Teams that had some issues the teams that had issues were certainly not benching breea the teams that were loaded might have so I mean look if we’re we’re going to put Amari Cooper at that level we got to give Bree Hall his flowers for what he did I mean he was

Absolutely exceptional 12 catches you know Dave and I had the conversation and I know we were just debating players it wasn’t that Dave didn’t like Bree Hall but you know the one uh critique he brought up was what he catch passes and oh boy he oh yeah turns out he can and

Did yeah and and again spinning it forward this makes you feel really good about him as a potential top five overall pick next year you knowly a first round pick I mean with Aaron Rogers and his List of Demands about what he wants um he doesn’t want a new

Running back but he certainly wants a better offensive line and that will allow Bree Hall to uh you know fulfill his Destiny as we saw last year as a potential uh League winning running back week in week out yeah but right so any hesitation with him because it’s goes from at home

Against one of the worst defenses in football to on the road against one of the best defenses in football at Cleveland next week again not benching him um certainly you know I have him in two leagues that looks like I’ll advance in both and no chance on benching BR and that’s and

That’s to to to put in perspective two 10 team leagues where uh one I have mcaffrey Kiren Williams and Bree Hall he’ll be in my Flex spot and the other he’ll most likely be my number two running back along with maccaffrey Dave you have a winner you want to give I

Mean it’s got to be Gabe Davis everybody was starting him waiting for this big huge moment and he came through and no I’m not goingon to go with him uh I I kind of want to go I I want to go to Stafford and I know that he didn’t play

Uh today he played on Thursday but another great game he’s his arm is Sensational he’s got a great receiving core I know cup didn’t come through but it’s it’s a good offense a healthy offensive line and I think they’re going to continue to be certainly willing to Chuck it

Downfield I think that that’s an important factor that they’re not going to get conservative just because it’s late in the season obviously they have a lot to play for this is a team that nobody wants to play in the playoffs so they’re getting hot it was asked at the

Office today during the games uh Zack Brook asked it who who’s the team that could take down the 49ers in their first playoff game and I thought it would be the Rams they always play him tough Stafford’s healthy and he’s playing well and we we talked about him a couple of

Weeks ago and we said he was still out there in free agency a little bit it was more in the shallow leagues but we told people pick him up because the schedule’s going to be great you can ride with him he can be your starter and

And that’s where we are with him I mean he was just as good as Justin Fields this week he was better than a bunch of quarterbacks this week I I think that he’s absolutely in line to be pretty much a must start fantasy quarterback he’s a winner Stafford is at the Giants

Next week and as of now he is qb7 I believe car one Flaco look I mean look at this this is insane Carr is qb1 flacko is tied with him Jordan love Josh Allen Bryce young Matthew Stafford to be fair Brock py Patrick Mahomes m they all play a

Noello yeah I get it um all right but uh yeah another big day for flacko so that was pretty fun too Biggest Loser uh Jamie who you got for the Biggest Loser uh my start of the week uh Ken Walker he was terrible um you know

Just a a dud from the Seahawks for three and a half quarters really of I don’t know what the hell they were doing give the Titans credit for how they you know played them but it felt like Seattle was not uh ready and you know Adam your

Question earlier in the week West Coast team East Coast time time slot you know that might have something to do with it here we are again um but Seattle was bad Ken Walker was bad I was really hopeful when they got down inside the five I

Think it was with late in the game and it was Zack shanet and as opposed to Ken Walker I was like I mean come on give me something you know uh but yeah Walker was bad so um I haven’t had a a dud started the week like this in in a long

Time and this was uh frustrating to see the role in the passing game you know that must be a Drew lock thing at this point so um two games with Drew locky was great eight targets seven catches Gino’s back and you see the numbers here one catch two yards uh so frustrating

For Ken Walker across the board I was really upset to see him I know what series you’re talking about where shanet was playing inside the 10 uh it was actually three of three snaps inside the five for shanet it felt like it was the first time this year where Walker wasn’t

Even getting like a sniff near the goal line like I I talked about it when we talked about Walker this week just you know consistently this year when he’s been healthy he’s been their guy inside of the 10 yard line and five touchdowns from down there was hoping for that was

Hoping for a couple of breakaway runs uh I think you’re right you got to give credit to the Titans defense for for stepping up they were missing so many starters and we just kind of rode off all these guys I think Otis Reese I think his last name is was was this

Awesome linebacker for them it stinks he got the work at least he got the carries I don’t know if he got got the catches but a dud for sure and now people are going to question like there’s going to be questions all around with Kenneth Walker well I guess gota say because

You’re talking about late in the game when they got inside the five yard line he will pretty much never play in the two-minute drill I mean that’s just sure but this isame if he’s their best running back that situation you can put him in then at that point in the game

They were trying to slow down the the game and and run down the clock and I thought yeah were they yeah because they didn’t want to give Titans a chance to get the ball back sure they had to score but they didn’t want to give the Titans

A chance to get the ball back so the fact that they ran the ball twice tells you that was their plan and so you would think okay you could have you could have easily brought uh you know a different packaging and and let Walker be on the

Field do you think the Steelers run defense solved itself this week no no then you might feel okay starting Walker next week lost another linebacker too they did they lost Landon Roberts so we’ll we’ll see how that goes but Walker’s got the Steelers in week 17 Who’s Your Biggest Loser I’m gonna go

With Sam leaport must start tight end fantasy managers were counting on him we saw the Lions put up 30 points on the Vikings that’s a good defense that they racked up numbers against not only did leapor have a bad game he only had three targets so that’s someone that’s really

Gon to make fantasy managers frustrated not the type of game that we wanted to see not the game type of game we’ve really ever seen or rarely seen from Sam leor although I do think it’s two of his last three he’s kind of underwhelmed a

Little bit I don’t know if I’m ready to question him and take him out of my my fantasy lineup in the in the championship I I think so he’s taking on Dallas next week and I kind of think that’s a game the Lions can win yeah I’m really looking forward to

That game me too okay uh yeah I’ll just I’ll just say etn well but we’ll get to him in a second we have mega Duds um the whole I mean the it was a bad day for the Jacksonville Jaguars for sure we’ll tell about the injuries as well uh

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It is vote for Fantasy Football today and uh we’ll be your best friend it be a nice Christmas gift for us Trevor Lawrence left with a shoulder injury he will not practice on Thursday or Friday and then he will play that just he never misses a game but yeah he left with a

Shoulder rer he played horribly in this game yes he did his line did do a good job they were getting destroyed when he left yep yeah it could have been that for sure jacobe brassette replaced Sam Howell again did any any word on uh I’m

Sure he was asked about it uh Ron Rivera was non-committal but how do you go back to how at this point yeah uh and Jaylen and Brett’s been good two games in a row but he gets San Francisco uh this week Jaylen Wadd left with a shin injury Jordan Addison

Left with an ankle injury DJ Moore left on the first play basically or the first series at least for the uh Bears then he did come back in the game he had a terrible game do we have a snap count on DJ Moore I’ll get you one he was in and

Out when I was watching in the second half uh Davian Wicks he got you what you what you needed he had a good game well he scored and then he left with a chest injury uh T.J hackinson left with a knee injury and Cole KT left with a knee

Injury right hackinson was ruled out pretty quickly that’s not a good sign uh DJ Moore 50 of 67 snaps played so play a lot of snaps ran a lot routs well I’ll be able to check the film to see if he was slower than usual and also for the Vikings Edge

Rusher DJ wanham and cornerback mikai Blackman left so not only did they lose a really important game and came down to the wire it was a tough sorry shaer but it was a tough a lot of injuries as well for yeah and they didn’t have Murphy at cornerback coming into the game so

Definitely a softened up Vikings defense right now I did see two Falcons offensive linemen left Matthews left with an injury and Lindstrom was evaluated from a concussion so don’t know their status but next week they get the Bears so tough run defense are going to want those linemen back for the

Atlanta Falcons um Pittsburgh linebacker at Landon Roberts left with an injury I spent all week talking about how that Texans pass defense was so much better with Jimmy Ward he left with a concussion in the first quarter I don’t know if he came back I don’t think he

Did I don’t believe he did either you know like oh there’s so much better this and that and then he barely played all right let’s take a break we’ll come back and we’ll talk about the mega Duds if you’re still competing into week a 17 not 18 we’ll give you some early waiver

Wire pickups and we’ll be right back on fantasy football today all right everybody welcome back here and early waiver wire look it’s obviously you’re competing against one other person so not uh not so urgent to talk about this now but does anybody come to mind for the waiver yeah khil Herbert wow

That was so man really thought it was gonna be Roshan he does have the Falcons next week doesn’t matter if there’s no Deontay Foreman he’s a borderline starter okay the board I’m just laying out the tough Falcons run defense they finally got punched for some touchdowns

Today by the way Jonathan Taylor had one yeah just one right just one took him three tries from the one yard line and the Titans finally gave up a touchdown to a Titan oh how about that as the and Kobe Parkinson uh I don’t know about um Cedric Wilson he

Out against Baltimore nobody starting him yeah I don’t like his chances there Durham SMI also had a good game but again nobody’s gonna start him um okay well this is basically it for the early waiver wire Michael Wilson potentially if Maris Brown doesn’t play they get the Eagles yeah what about quarterbacks

Flaco’s flacko like are you going to trust FL against the Jets on Thursday it’s a Revenge game if you’re if you’re at that point where you’re still streaming quarterbacks yes you’re going to trust Flaco uh like I would trust him more than Mason Rudolph I would trust

Him more than jacobe brassette I would trust him more than CJ bethard you know any of these guys sure but take it a step forward like you’re gonna start him over Mullins that’s fine what about Browning I was starting over Browning unless Chase plays okay Browning’s at Kansas City I

Like smth I mean jino Smith 78% rostered he gets Pittsburgh yeah but I mean like this this should have been a layup game tonight too well he had what did he get 21 21 points and look it wasn’t pretty it was not pretty uh you know got better

In the second half for Gino Smith but he ended up with 21 points and I will say this you know we we spent a lot of time first we got to see if making Fitzpatrick’s back I think the Steelers may have found something with Patrick Peterson at safety yeah that was a

Surprise a minor surprise that they actually play there against the Colts when everybody left sure I’m surprised that they they let him start there and play there again and then they opened up their other quarterback spot to Levi Wallace but it was good it worked out

For them all right um all right well that’s uh that’s an early look at the waiver wire let’s talk about some of the mega Duds H what is going on what is going on with Stefon dicks five catches for 29 yards on eight targets at the

Chargers I’ve run out of excuses it gets New England next week uh J Jamie what do you think is the deal with Stefon Diggs and is he still a starter uh against New England yes he’s still a starter he’s just not a top 15 wide receiver you know we’ll see what

Happens with Michael Pitman is he able to return we’ll see what Jaylen wad status is we’ll see what Jamar Chase’s status is um but if you Advanced with Diggs depends on who else you have you know I mean rashy rice is easy DK meaf is easy um Nico Collins I think you got

To go back to him at this point you know he played he played well today obviously Mark Cooper you know so any of these guys that are playing at a high level despite a tough matchup you start them over Diggs but I’m just trying to think like where I’ll rank him probably

Somewhere around 20 stat without context he’s had a 38% Target share each of the last two games yeah that’s crazy well now do you want the context yeah Josh Allen threw 15 passes two games ago and 21 passes against the Chargers so if Josh Allen’s volume is

Going down it’s not really that great to have a a 38% Target share because it’s still you know decent targets but not like 10 12 and it’s a lot of short stuff it looks like it feels like short stuff for him I do think that Josh Allen will have

To throw more against New England just you know hunch that the Patriots run defense you also got to wonder where they’re at with James Cook too after the fumble and then they didn’t throw to him at all which was so weird because it’s been working so well yeah well even

Still you would expect more than 29 yards on eight targets for Stefon Diggs of last week 48 48 yards on four catches that’s not bad four for 48 on five targets is not bad 12 yards per catch you expect more than that from Stefan di

Yeah it’s not bad but you know this was just a bad game for him like definitely better than five. this this was the layup I mean no weather concerns terrible defense yeah tough and they’re very conservative now it’s working for them he only ran 18 routes am I really reading this right

Yeah I kept seeing him come off the field too yeah not not like a ton but you know I don’t know it’s okay Travis etn six carries for 12 yards three catches for 19 yards at Tampa Bay and a bunch of times I’m just sitting there

Watching going where is he why is he hang on can we go back to Diggs for a second yeah just on a on a lark I happened to watch his first catch do you remember his first catch against the Chargers no it’s a little screen pass

Little short pass he catches it and it looks like something happened with his neck like he laid there for a few seconds after the play yeah maybe he’s hurt might have gotten hurt on that play and that might be that might explain his snaps but he still had a ton of targets

I’m sorry sorry for that yeah know some people are saying James Cook is a dud I’ve seen that look cook got 20 carries I I you know know I know it was disappointing I know he didn’t catch a pass but he had such a great role at

Least you know you got those carries with etn you got nine touches in this game he’ll bounce back next week next week is Carolina right Carolina hopefully hopefully he does all right fine Sam leap Porto we already talked about and uh how about Devon Anan that

Was my my next Mega dud aan and Pard in the same game they both scored about four fantasy points in full PPR I think Pard was 5.3 hm was 4.1 moard I don’t know I don’t have the snap count day but moer was in out he got hurt he wasn’t playing toward

The end Jeff Wilson was playing toward the end so um so this was a big opportunity for aan and he did not take advantage of it and neither did Pard really with uh 13 Touches at Miami and Pard played 70% of the snaps dominated third Downs had a majority inside the

Five just could not get going the Dolphins run defense is pretty good as it turns out slash Pard isn’t that good well you know I don’t know there’s much to say throwing Tim which is weird they were doing such a great job with it aan or Pard or cook

Pard all three of them right aan all three of them I mean aan how many targets did aan end up with it wasn’t that many three one catch seven yards on three targets yeah it’s strange and definitely like I think he got a little lucky if you started Raheem moer he

Scored the touchdown he played only nine snaps after the first quarter nine of 51 snaps after well I mean he got hurt that’s why you know it’s uh you wonder you mentioned Adam the end of the game they were their most important clock killing drive to set up the field goal

Was jeffson yeah yeah fresh well that’s right that and that’s really the question with Anan is there as we have one game left in the season is there any way he’s really getting a huge workload and it’s Baltimore next week unless unless most of out you know like we come

Into the week and you know most are did they ever say what the injury was I don’t think we ever got a report what the injury was it looked like it was something lower L leg Yeah Yeah ankle or calf right did did he did he sprain his

Ankle and then it flared up and it got worse did he you know tweak calf and you know issue I mean he looked out there I don’t know um but you know if it’s his knee and and something so you know if he’s out then it’s hard to get away from Anan

As at least running back would you consider Wilson ahead of aan not unless there was something seriously wrong with Anan okay but would you consider Wilson if you’re desperate for a running back maybe but that that’s you know back to your wer wire segment that’s another got to keep an ey

Definitely all right let’s take a look at the leaderboard here usually we do our winners and losers but what why don’t we take a look at the at the leaders for Fantasy week 16 we’ll look at the top five at each position we’ll start with Derek Carr

And Joe Flaco they threw 40 to 42 times well over 300 yards three touchdowns for both of them I mean that’s the thing Dave it’s 40 plus pass attempts every game for Flaco and this was a for the most part was a blowout win yeah he left the game and had to

Come back in Jordan love um with one of the best games all year against Carolina for any quarterback Josh Allen and then there’s Bryce young and Matthew Stafford and Justin Fields actually was there as well with 25 but certainly Carr flacko love they really stand out here Carr had

To throw a lot in the game against the Rams that’s what a lot of quarterbacks do against the Rams at least in the last month in change uh against Tampa Bay he’ll probably do the exact same thing so good match up for Carr absolutely someone that you could put into that

Consideration as a lowend qb1 Michael Thomas May return yeah that would help def maybe but um just something keep an eye on there and then the nice thing is though we we we spent a couple weeks talking about this what his production has been with Tamm Hills role reduced I

Think that’s the biggest thing for Derek Carr it’s like not coming off the field as much getting more short area opportunities near the goal line and look Crystal La played through apparently a bad ankle injury he said that to at least one member of the media

That it was it was tough for him so hopefully the extra rest will help him but Tampa Bay is rolling right now it’s a huge game for both these teams and you hope that Derek Carr comes to play all right we’ll take a look at the uh the top running backs from fantasy

Week 16 I know Bree Hall is going to be at the top of that list and let’s see who joins him Bree Hall with 42 points jir Gibbs with 24 points I mean what a gap between one and two Derek Henry 22 points James Connor 21 and bejan

Robinson had 19 so I didn’t lose the BET by that much I got a top five running back out of that Jamie but uh that’s true Hey listen that’s that’s a win both guys were good for for people who start him bejan should have had a better day

He had an easy touchdown and just couldn’t figure out how to get his feet in bounds just yep so I I took a little bit of heat on Twitter because I thought that was mostly on hinei it was a terrible throw it was late it was slow

Loopy and it was behind him he could have done a little bit better job with his feet but even the broadcasters said it was on Heidi at least they said wasn’t that throw a little late and they said yeah so but he was wide open he’s got to anticipate that route a little

Bit not just wait for him to be open and then throw it that was that was bad but yes he he should have had a touchdown catch he had seven catches I think he led the team in receiving bejon Robinson but um yeah I don’t know does anything

Stand out here Jamie Hall Gibbs derck Henry James James Conor I mean sorry five catches uh 67 bald in the passing game we haven’t seen that you know and that was uh nice to see his his rushing production was fine uh that was my concern if he didn’t get a rushing

Touchdown so he C I think his first receiving touchdown in the season so um you know I don’t want to say you got lucky because he’s been productive for the last two weeks but you got a little lucky with how it got done um so yeah so

Conor was was a very solid number two running back this week Conor uh got off to a great start running the football in the second half he started to get grinded down a little bit more you got very lucky with Conor because the touchdown came from 16 yards out you

Don’t see that very much the Cardinals had no snaps inside the 10 against Chicago so any of those possibilities of him getting a short yardage touchdown wouldn’t have happened otherwise you needed that catch and TouchDown for James Conor I’m just happy that he led the team in catches or or not led the

Team in catches he led the team actually in reing yards 67 yards on five catches I I think that that’s important because one of the narratives coming into this week was well he’s not doing anything with the catches that he gets he did a little bit with it but nothing like this

This was a good opportunity for him to show that he can still make plays through the air yeah and I I was watch the game I watched the most of was Lions Vikings I had that on the whole time it’s really fun game you know I know Montgomery

Actually had two more carries than Gibbs but it really felt different today day it really felt like oh the goal line opportunities were all there for you yeah well at the beginning of the game it was Montgomery but then just at the end of the game it was Gibbs not just

There but just in general and he was so good he was just in the freaking Zone and and the fact that he fumbled too that they stuck with him yeah so you know obviously he’s a mustar guy but it it’s a possibility that he that he can

Get 15 plus carries on a weekly basis and that would just be huge in your fantasy Championship you because he’ll do so much with her yeah I mean that’s like the one thing that’s been missing with Gibbs is that Surefire workload that it kind of wains a little bit but

His playing time had been ahead of montgomer for the majority of the last few weeks I want to say like the last four yeah yeah that’s fair since Montgomery came back and they each had three snaps inside the five there were six snaps inside the five Gibbs had

Three Montgomery had three you know Montgomery scored on one touchdown it’s it’s it’s Gibbs all the way like he’s clearly their better back they understand that now no doubt about it top 10 if not top like six five if mostarts hurt fantasy running back for week

17 all right let’s I take him over mostard even if he’s healthy I’m gonna share I mean it is Dallas it almost doesn’t matter with Gibbs you’re right Montgomery is the one you got to be nervous about let’s share a screen here and let’s take a look at this poll

Who would you rather have in Dynasty bejan Robinson or jir Gibbs and I put out during the games today and of course 64% of the vote jir Gibbs 882 votes but it’s funny because I was thinking about that today you know there was a small faction of of draft analysts that liked

Jir Gibbs more than bejan Robinson and people that I respected who and it made me convince me to draft Gibbs in the third round I don’t think it’s so crazy I mean he really looks he really looks that good he looks like a superstar I don’t think it’s that crazy who would

You guys rather have in Dynasty bejan Robinson or jir Gibbs I want to see who the new coach and quarterback is in Atlanta because I think that matters tremendously if they get a better play caller that will allow beon to be bejon as opposed to hey let’s give Tyler Alger

Too many touches or let’s Force Cordell Patterson on the field or hey I just don’t feel like playing Bean right now um so right now it feels like it’s easy to say gives you know and you know not prisoner of the moment type thing but because be obviously coming off a good

Game but um I hear it every week because Rick Spielman and Pete prisco I watch games with them um all the time and Pete yells at Rick uh you know I like Gibbs better than beon last year and you said generational running back blah blah blah

You know so they get into it it’s like Statler Waldorf um and uh but I I mean it’s it’s it’s a great debate it really is um you know but Gibbs with Ben Johnson and beon with Arthur Smith feels like be’s at a disadvantage and so that’s another point

Who’s going to call the plays for Detroit next year will it be as seamless as it you know as we’re hoping that it would be and that Gibbs continues to dominate playing time and I think that issue that ship sailed Gibbs is going to be the main running back as long as he’s

Healthy hopefully the offensive line stays a strong point for Detroit but it will be another year older we don’t know who the play caller is going to be I think it’s I I here’s here’s where I would come out on it if you had Gibbs in Dynasty there’s no way you would give

Him up for bejan straight up and if you had bejan in Dynasty I bet there’s a decent percentage of people that would take Gibbs and so I don’t want to do the prisoner of the- moment thing either but if it’s Arthur Smith for another year in Atlanta I think he gotta go

Gibbs okay let’s take a look at the top wide receivers from fantasy week 16 guess who’s number one Amari Cooper’s number one guess who’s number two Mike Evans no he didn’t play today oh George Pickins oh yeah picks George Pickins four catches 195 yards two touchdowns puka AA

Is number three am manra St Brown four and then we have Mike Evans Calvin Ridley and DJ CH All Tied they’re all better than T hio they’re all better than T Higgins 25 so is Justin Jefferson so basically Ridley Evans and Char scored 27 points Jefferson scored 26

This is all decimal and Higgins scored 25 in PPR I want to I want to just give Justin Jefferson some credit there was a there was a two-play sequence in that game where if anybody questioned would he come back from the hamstring and how much did it matter to him contract all

That stuff uh Nick Mullins fumbled and Justin Jefferson came out of nowhere from running his route to behind the line of scrimmage to recover the fumble on the next play Nick Mullins threw a hospital ball that would have killed Justin should have killed Justin Jefferson goes up he

High points the football and takes a shot in his lower back to get a first I think it was third and 19 or something like that third 17 yes that play that sequence was just unbelievable for what a superstar and and you know the whole George Pickins Narrative of not blocking

And the way he performed and kudos to him for responding that’s the way a superstar plays football and a team leader plays football Thomas as a Vikings fan you should be proud is he 101 at as as we sit here right now next year uh assuming cousins is back at

100% it’s hard to say no knowing that mcaffry is gonna be 28 I’m gonna go back to Justin Jefferson yeah I’m I’m not ready to go back to him yet I might but Tyreek Hill is making a pretty compelling case to be the 101 himself and mcaffry is going to

Be in the conversation yep that’s probably your top three I wonder I don’t I don’t want the 101 though they right no it’s the curse it’s the curse Calvin Ridley is uh yeah well I was so relieved that I got this one right because I was very emphatic about it this morning and

He had six catches for 90 yards and two touchdowns it was not easy for Calvin all in the second half what he does it was it was the epitome of garbage time yeah but still you know he took advantage of the matchup he always does that next week is Carolina that’s going

To be a lot more interesting um okay uh all right let’s go the tight ends here I actually have no idea who the co Ked will be on here let’s see the best tight ends okono okono won Ingram Nook KET yeah he’s tied all right okono Ingram nooku Dalton

Schulz with 14 points eight C hurt that game right Joan Johnson had 14 pointsan Johnson yeah he’s there too Logan Thomas caught a touchdown Logan th Thomas is tied with Cole KT so there’s four guys tied with 14 Schultz Jawan Johnson Cole KT Logan Thomas but the top three performers are

Chigo cono who caught a touchdown pass from Derrick Henry Evan Ingram and David nooku njoku by the way um kudos to him for laughing at himself uh for his terrible situation that happened to him a few weeks ago when he caught on fire um Browns sent out like a Christmas card

Type thing on Instagram and they have him standing near the fireplace he he commented on he goes did your guys really have to put me near the fire wow good for him having a sense of humor about it yeah this is a somewhat boring list I guess but it it was just

Weird that Cole KT got all of the production and DJ Moore got nothing well he caught a couple of deep balls it was only five Target which is kind of out of character for Cole KT but still he he could have had an even bigger game if he

Had just stayed healthy but he took some shots and had to leave early and let’s not forget who’s playing tomorrow too of course you’ve got likely you’ve got KD you’ve got Waller got you’ve got yeah I guess he does he still count does he matter is he good well that game doesn’t

Matter Michael May’s out okay let’s take a break and uh we’ll go over all the games let me do wait do I have any uh almost touchdowns Deontay Johnson was wide open for a long touchdown Mason Rudolph missed him uh by the way did you guys think that it was poetic at all

That that uh Rudolph all right uh let’s who starts next week for them that’s a big story oh picket if he’s healthy go back to pick doing that badly it’s so much easier to start Rudolph and if he stinks you’d bring pick it in it’s kind of telling if they go with

Rudolph over picket though but you give him another week to get healthy well but then but your playoff hopes are still on the line okay and who won a game for them to get them sure Rudolph did that but if if pickets healthy and they start Rudolph I think that’s T I’m starting

Rudolph I think they should I just don’t know if they will I just think that it really was all about it being Christmas time but fine so we’ll take a break and come back with our thoughts on all of the games from the weekend we’ll be right back it’s still Christmas

Time I think there maybe could be a New Year’s pun that I’m working on here with Kenny picket uh you keep working okay I will maybe something about a ball dropping do any of them drop a lot of passes I don’t know all right we’ll be

Right back on fantasy there’s a lot of jokes that could be said right now Buffalo 24 and the Chargers 22 and I think we’ll just kind of you know well Dro on that joke yeah so what do you guys are you worried about James Cook next week 20 carries for 70 yards

And he gets the Patriots uh again not enough to bench him outright but depends on who else you have on your team does he make your top 12 uh probably not theend depends on injuries I tend to agree can’t start Dalton conade anymore right no no all

What you think about Eckler that was an encouraging game wasn’t great but he’s looked um you know in a while maybe well he probably looked good against Denver but um he he definitely performed well Denver again so back to him yeah all perfect Josh Palmer beat the waiver wire 48%

Rostered um against Denver yeah not l no okay Pittsburgh 34 Cincinnati 11 oh what’s Romeo Do’s roster percentage 70s I think yeah he 881 Y what game were we on Pittsburgh Cincinnati Pittsburgh yeah well we saw what happens to the running backs here for the Bengals when they have the bad

Game scrips they they really want to run the ball but they couldn’t 11 carries for Mixon I don’t know what do you any major takeaways from this game guys I mean I I thought the running back usage was weird only six targets to the running backs when La last week it just

Why didn’t they try and replicate what the Colts did maybe they just fell behind too far too fast where they couldn’t give enough work to Mixon and and Chase brown but I would have tried to have get gotten them going a little bit more in the passing game they that’s

Where they’ve made plays it’s where Browning has been making plays and I felt like they just kind of asked Browning to make too many big plays for them and he made the one to T Higgins but it’s just it’s it was a little strange that they didn’t use their

Running backs more I wonder if they try and go back to that well uh again the sort of the prevailing Theory typically is when a backup quarterback hits their wall they really fall off you know and you know two or three games into it is typically when you see Sol Josh dos for

Example um it can look good for a couple games and then reality sets in why they’re backups and why they’re Journeymen and yet you’re the guy that’s calling for Mason Rudolph next week I’m calling for Mason Rudolph Over Kenny picket I’m not saying to start Mason

Rudolph as a as a fantasy option I know but the reality is going to hit Mason Rudolph at some point uh that’s very true it might but I think for right now I would I would ride the hot hand um just like you got two good games out of

Jake browning after a dud so I think for for what you’re looking at we’ll see what the Chiefs defense looks like coming off of this game Monday but it’s hard to say again mixon’s in that James Cook Travis etn canoe of you’re still you’re still probably starting him um

But yeah they should probably get back to what they were doing with their running backs in the passing game certainly give Chase Brown some more looks too he’s he’s much more explosive but the flip side to it especially with this matchup coming up is that their defense is terrible right now I mean

Losing DJ reer you saw Nai have a big game so I would imagine that the Kansas City Chiefs will almost have a similar game script to what the Steelers had and so I don’t know if I can feel really good about Mixon next week I I think

James Cook over Mixon for example yeah I would um I don’t I don’t disagree with that but again you know remember we rode off Mixon in the first game with Jake Brownie and then he came back and scored I think two touchdowns in that game if

Not well I’ll tell you who I’ll start over mixing next week is Isaiah Pacho against the Bengals Cleveland I think everybody was there on that one yeah I’m just saying he’s you know he’d be a great great guy to have next week Cleveland 36 and Houston

22 so Jerome Ford finds the end zone Kareem hunt also scored a touchdown uh but they did not have much of a running game all right Devin single ter how about Jerome Ford scoring and not even getting 10 PPR points yeah this this is a bad game script for single ter you

Know I mean they were getting blasted but next week they’ll get Tennessee good chance they’ll have strad back so yeah we could see just a better offensive performance obviously but you think single ter uh cracks the top 20 next week uh he’ll be close to top 20 almost

Certainly would be top team weeks ago absolutely he’ll be top 20 yeah and listen he had a long play called back by a penalty so still is get very involved um Dario Goomba had a snap share that was pretty close to Deon single teres he dominated fourth quarter snaps so just

Kind of a game script thing for single ter where they rested him and he didn’t play as much as he did the week prior for example uh I think Devon single’s absolutely in play having stoud back helps a lot too okay how about Detroit 30 and

Minnesota to 24 the Lions the I mean let me just you know not a fantasy stat here but the Lions ran 26 more plays than the Vikings and they were outgained by one yard their defense is just not good enough I mean it’s awful I maybe they

Get CJ Gardner Johnson back and get a little healthier I sure that’ll help 51 play 7.6 yards per play for Minnesota 5.1 for Detroit Detroit gets the six point win that was with Detroit losing hackinson and losing Addison I mean Minnesota Minnesota know it’s crazy yeah but it Addison happened in the first

Half Hockinson in the fourth quarter I think fourth quarter second third quarter was the third pretty sure anywh who um yeah I you know I don’t know how you guys F I thought G played really well but he only scored 16 points I don’t know what that means for you next

Week at Dallas but officient I’d still start him I mean that that game has Sho out written all over it but this game had shoot out ritten all over it and he I mean and and you can get run into the same situation where the running backs

Do a bulk of the scoring which is always an issue with Detroit and it’s kind of been the problem for golf on the road remember he’s had some good games where he’s performed go back to week one he played really well against the Chiefs didn’t

Have a big fantasy day a game like this happens to him a lot throughout the course of the season but you know again I think you see what Dallas’s defense is looking like right now they’re certainly better at home you can run on them especially if henkins isn’t there so

Take that into account but I’m not getting like I I’m I’m I’m hoping uh my my father son league with uh my oldest son uh we have Goff as our quarterback if if we advance I’m not dropping him for somebody else would you start flacko over

Golf I think if it was an easier match up for flacko I would agree but not next week how about Stafford at the Giants if we start Stafford yes right not a waiver wire thing but just no just if these are your quarterbacks this is who you go

With obviously Alexander Madison was not really healthy enough he had two carries hopefully they give Chandler a little bit of a reprieve here because eight carries for 17 yards he did score but uh you know yeah unless henkins comes back but sure Chandler gets the Packers oh I’m

Sorry Packers sorry went to the wrong team there um yeah by the way no uh no but I do email you all of the notes so I’ll I I think that’s all in my email you know I send you the notes uh Jamie you send them back to me all those

I gotta go through my trash B I do all my game previews I send you the notes thank goodness and I’ll be able to retrieve them from there but that was a SC like all of my work for week 17 will be based off the week 16 document and I

Erased the entire thing an hour ago so that was really okay so we’re going to sit you in our computer function League I mean that was just I just had too many documents open and I copied and pasted into the wrong one okay nobody cares hey what do you do with KJ Osborne

If there’s no Addison and no hackinson that’s a great because that could be the number one waiver claim could be absolutely against Green Bay yeah I mean we fell for this with Jefferson when he got hurt Addison and hackinson were healthy uh it was when Addison and hackinson

Were healthy so it’s you got to see who’s who’s back if both are out so it’s not a bad idea to pick them up clearly but you know we get to we got a game Thursday we got a game Saturday and everybody else plays Sunday so if we

Don’t know by Thursday maybe you’re playing Osborne if we don’t know by Saturday maybe playing Osborne We have an answer by Sunday then he’ll be in the number three receiver conversation I mean he had two good catches and they were like on back-to-back plays they were exactly

Back to back yeah so I don’t know what you can count on moving forward it’s it’s a messy situation right it’s a bad quarterback good matchup should have good opportunities lowend wide receiver three lowend flex play too uh they’ll use uh he’s like eight PPR points I’m not excited

About Brandon po Green Bay 33 excuse me and Carolina 30 oh you know what do you think about the uh what do you think about Aaron Jones I guess Jordan love big winner the fact they did against this team was great it was great absolutely three total touchdowns didn’t have to throw a

Lot he followed the same Trend that most quarterbacks do against Carolina three of his uh top four receivers for a good kind of took a step forward again like this is the type of thing you want to see is your quarterback making plays and doing well without his best receivers

There he did that they uh the fact that they almost blew this game though yeah yeah that’s a good point I uh I thought that the game would be close I thought it actually be low scoring I I picked a Panthers to cover it was five and a half

That we what we picked it at and as the game was on full I’m like oh my God what an call I mean um the fact that give Bryce young some credit this was his best game by far he threw the ball really well I think the fourth quarter

Is worth a review I think that he made some great throws downfield sh obviously camped out under them for a couple of big touchdowns I don’t mean to say that like they were bad throws they were great sideline catch yeah he did yeah Char had some great plays down the line

Here he’s somebody that you could potentially look at he had eight targets six catches almost 100 yards two touchdowns this was Green Bay with Jer Alexander at corner that’s true and Jer Alexander botched the opening coin toss I don’t know if you guys saw that no how

Do you botch a coin toss well you have to say did he go scissors if you uh if you are if you win the coin toss you can either receive or you can defer you oh but he said we want the ball in the second half I think he said

Or you want to kick off or something like that but if you don’t defer then you give the the other team the the choice in the second half so if you say we want to kick off you’re going to kick off in the first half and you’re

Gonna end up kicking off in the second half because the other team has the CH has the choice in the second half they actually I didn’t know that was the thing interesting so you defer so he went out there and he screwed it up but the official was like you mean defer

Right and then he he corrected him basically he almost cost so basically the official is the uh equivalent to you as a fantasy commissioner what did I do you allow people to correct their mistakes yes yes uh so the same guy who guaranteed that the team would wi out

And then lost to the Giants um also screwed up the kickoff the co yeah he it was his first game back and he went out there and I think the way I read it from the ESPN story was that he’s not even one of the captains I don’t think he was

Supposed to be out there but he went out there he nearly cost him a possession but but he did not Aaron Jones look good by the way 21 carries 127 yards but let me let me just draw this parallel right so Aaron Jones did great against Carolina the same way Tai Chandler

Looked great against Cincinnati y the following week Chandler plays a good run defense in the Lions next week for Aaron Jones he plays Vikings a much better run defense than the Panthers um this was I mean this it was a really bad year for Aaron Jones going into this game the

Metrics were just terrible so you know we’re going to fall into a trap next week with him I think you have to start him as a number two running back I think he’s still going to get a good workload there’s definitely shootout potential there’s definitely Vikings turnover

Potential that could give a lot of extra plays and maybe an extra possession or two to the Green Bay Packers he gota worry about AJ Dylan swiping a touchdown from sh yardage that happened in this game but I think Aaron Jones is going to continue to get a lot of work and the

Vikings taking a hit on the defensive line plus the fact that Detroit just ran right through them give me a break loser sorry I just came across that in the mixer thought it would thought it would work there yeah I think they really wanted Aaron Jones to

Score a touchdown he kept failing and then Jones Dylan came in and then after Dylan scored his touchdown I think he went over and gave the ball to Aaron Jones okay next had the short a touch yeah next game is oh by the way Dave he had some confidence at Adam thielen and

He came through for you with 15.4 PPR fantasy points Atlanta 29 yeah he scored yeah uh Atlanta 29 and the Colts 10 and it’s just a tough game for mchu without Michael Pitman and no one really stepped up but what about Taylor I mean it wasn’t the most inspiring game 18

Carries 43 yards and a touchdown any problems with him against the Raiders none I almost like it he got to take some cobwebs off didn’t get his normal like heavy workload he played 63% of the the snaps and Surman and Goodson mixed in and split up the Zach Moss role

Basically I think he’ll get more work and I think he’s got a shot to do much better against the Raiders what’ you make of Drake London’s dud oh awful so frustrating is it a hinei thing I just don’t trust them with hinei well we haven’t seen it yet this was the first

Game that they’ve actually played four quarters together and it’s four targets three catches 39 yards and London had some great catches in the game just didn’t get the volume be he haniki was checking down a ton 10 targets for bejan Robinson we saw aler make a catch uh

Janu had six targets a lot of those were short area throws so hinaki really didn’t challenge downfield that much maybe they felt like they didn’t have to do it Kyle Pitts is having a pretty decent finish to the season we’ll see how that plays out in draft season oh my

Gosh I just get a new coach and a new quarterback please I I look I understand everyone I think the Arthur Smith ha is getting a little bit out of hand they don’t use him properly he’s not a wide receiver they don’t I mean who’s not a

Wide receiver pits play him a tight end what’s wrong with letting them line up wide or because let him get mismatches on safeties and linebackers as opposed to playing on corners does he line up out wide that often too much I don’t think it’s too much yeah I

Don’t know I’m and there’s definitely a size Advantage if he’s lining up against a cornerback look at the Falcons roster are they supposed to be some great team have three players drafted in the top 10 positions they have a bad quarterback yes exag them down get a new

Coach get a new quarterback and we will be in great shape with the Falcons there was 16 carries between Tyler Al and Cordell Patterson give me Justin fields and Ben Johnson and I will love everybody there well Ben Johnson yeah I mean Ben Johnson’s obviously terrific

But yes that would be a big upgrade but I bet if Arthur Smith had Justin Fields I bet they’d be better also maybe so yeah sure because there’d be nine players with four targets each and now there’ be four guys with eight carries each P sun’s been ruled out with a

Concussion yeah it’s a shame stks okay uh in the championship week Seattle and Tennessee uh we’ve spoken about this game quite a bit Tyler lock it’s so annoying I’m sorry like be or be bad just stop stop with the alternating here um I don’t know and he oh oh wow Zeke um

Sorry sorry sorry touchdown Zeke uh he’s yeah yeah he’s caught a touchdown okay what he does sometimes all right Hopkins here we go if if Hopkins if if uh tanah Hill is the quarterback next week no the answer is no at Houston if Levis is theack Revenge

Game who’s Lis then maybe he’s a wide receiver three yeah but he was so bad with uh the Texans last week against Texans yep the bigger question is Derrick Henry what he did against the Texans last week yeah I I would not be very excited about no and they look for

What it’s worth they did a good job against the Browns running game I mean right you saw Ford get the touchdown I told you he didn’t even have 10 PPR points he averaged less than two yards per carry yeah and the touchdown came after the big play to Cooper the first

Quarter yep Daniel says I’d rather play King Henry as quarterback he’s not bad at that he really is I didn’t do that every game Jets almost blew a huge lead uh 30 to 28 that was crazy they were just cruising I think was it 27 nothing

Yep it was 27 to7 here’s here’s one of the underlying storylines that may cost you your week is we hyped up the what’s the score right now at the game Patriot game 97 New England okay so the Broncos defense still doing okay we hyped up the Bears defense they fell apart late hyped

Up the um Packers Jets and commanders to certain degrees they were terrible both of them uh bills couldn’t keep the Chargers from King field goals um all the defenses that we recommended this week in some way shape or form either early or late fell apart Browns fell

Apart late yeah who had a good game defensively the Packers I had I started in one League the Bucks yeah Falcons probably had a pretty good game too let’s see what else from this game McLaren struggled he wasn’t even that good with uh rette against San Francisco

Next week I don’t know it may not be the worst matchup but I I can’t imagine people gonna have too much he can’t feel good about anybody are you gonna feel good about Chris Rodriguez if he’s no I can’t feel good about him against San Fran yeah no no Chicago 27 Arizona

16 they almost blew it the yes they did 24 points for Kyler that was nice um anything on this game guys yeah nice garbage time run at the end sorry let’s talk about Herbert and Johnson because I really thought it made sense to go with Johnson you had three weeks

Ago he had no foreman and Johnson had a lot more work so they’ve never they have not been predictable for one second this season and it went happened again is Herbert gets 20 carries Roshan gets nine and three catches and Herbert has a really big game I thought Herbert had a

Hot hand early and that made all the difference and so one of the things that we talked about earlier today was well Roshan’s been playing third Downs it would make sense for him to keep playing third downs and yes he played the majority of third downs but then maybe

They could rotate a little bit who handles first down and second down ended up not happening that way at all khil Herbert got off to a hot start and they just rote him and remember they had this big two touchdown lead they started trying to Salt away the clock in the

Late third quarter like really awkward game management from the Bears coaching staff they’re not used to that yeah they it’s it’s almost like they didn’t know what to do and so like the fact that like Justin Fields is sliding in bounds and like there’s four minutes left of

The third quarter they should be trying to put up points and instead they’re just grinding down the clock and they Arizona was they had the ball down one score late they could have come back and tied it somehow they didn’t Bears defense was good enough then all right

But going into next week uh maybe four minutes back he was out for personal reasons personal we don’t know what it is and I don’t know if there’s an update from after the game there could be I just don’t know it all right so moving on to Tampa Bay 30 and Jacksonville

12 and yuck for Tampa Bay what do you think about Chris Godwin was a good game for him like not great but six catches for 78 yards and that’s now three straight games yeah with double digit targets well this was the first one where both him and Mike Evans played

Well and that was you know good to see with Rashad white still being productive so you know you can get you you know great production from all three of the guys uh we’ve seen they’re playing New Orleans next we certainly saw what New Orleans defense looked like against the

Rams and you know with I’m gonna assume several guys still missing uh I don’t think Latimore’s eligible to come back right next week so in terms of uh Mike Evans versus the Saints which is always a bad thing yeah I don’t think you worri about it this week maybe yeah by the way

Uh Sher tweeted something I I we we joke a lot in our in our Green Room Dave’s Dave’s usually part of this conversation about is Mike Evans a Hall of Famer um here’s the company he’s now put himself in along with the uh was it nine straight years now of thousand yards uh

Receiving or was it 10 um has he been he has uh 12 a long time this this is from uh shefer 12 touchdown receptions in five or more seasons joining Jerry Rice Terell Owens Marvin Harrison and rany Moss it’s hard to say that he’s not

Going to be in Hall of Fame 10 straight years with at least a thousand receiving yards for the galvaston Texas native and a and a Super Bowl ring um never an all pro I don’t believe but uh certainly building a very impressive resume and

He’s not done I think uh uh you know I know we’re getting to the offseason but baker has to come back if you’re Tampa Bay especially if they win the division you know looking at well does Mike Evans come back uh well that’s what I’m saying like if if Baker comes back obviously

Evans has to love Baker look at the season he’s had with him and so you know if you can get uh respectable contracts for these guys where it’s not in your long-term future because obviously Baker doesn’t have the long-term appeal that you like and clearly Evans doesn’t um if

They come back it’s a pretty good combination and you know God one as well so you got to feel good about where the Bucks are right now I know again prisoner of the moment if you want to you know go go that route but it’s been now three straight weeks of Baker

Looking great he’s got 80 fantasy points in his last three games I mean that’s incredible um offensive line is held up the Run game has been fantastic this season you know so they’re they’re peing at the right time and probably saving Todd BS a job and you got to put bows in

The the conversation as coach of the year too I wouldn’t vote for bows for coach of the year but he doing a good job he’s put himself at the back end of the list four sacks today I think some of that had to do with the offensive line that they were going against

Against jackville I think that offensive Line’s just in really bad shape right now and it it might end up sinking the Jaguar season but secondary played I guess a little bit better first half was better than the second half sorry I just want to get a fantasy question here then

We’ll go to our last game we’ll wrap things up do you trust Chris Godwin next week against the Saints yes if you’re expecting what he gave you this week yes two games ago no all right and Miami 22 and Dallas just did to them yes I did um yeah Miami 22 and Dallas

20 and uh well two a you know wow just really limping to the Finish Line 17 Point again I don’t think he played poorly I think he played really well last week I think he played well this week I just he’s not getting the fantasy points and when you never ever ever run

You need to score touchdowns he’s not doing enough of that so next he had a rare Miss touchdown on the opening drive that Tyreek Hill may have scored on and he had a couple of Misses in the game that Tyreek usually makes that play um

The problem with Tua this is going to be a problem for him in his career he doesn’t make plays Off Script he’s such a gets what’s available for him and that’s not a bad thing please don’t take that as a bad thing but he just doesn’t

When things break down and this is to your point Adam uh he doesn’t run so when things break down like the the plays at the goal line you know when he first read is not there it’s like a panic and you know that could also be you know with the

Offensive line being the shape that it’s in but it’s almost like and and he goes through his progressions there’s no nothing about that but it’s just like when when his receivers aren’t open or not on you know he he’s not comfortable what’s there it’s like he just

Doesn’t get you and this is a real life thing just doesn’t get you production he doesn’t do it consistently enough I’m sure there are examples where he does do it but it’s it’s few and far between yeah I mean you’d expect the the great ones always come through when a

Play breaks down think of momes and all the times that he’s come through and of course he’s not even close to that level um so I I get what you’re saying I thought the touchdown to moster was an amazing play design Yes again that’s what they do

You know as a mostard guy uh you could see it developing and I was like throw it to him throw it to him throw it to him yeah but yes I didn’t really you know I have a terrible memory I don’t remember a lot of game-winning drives

For Tua or moments like that in his career so I thought that was one of the real defining moments of tua’s career was marching them down the field not like he did so much on the drive but going out and winning that game I thought was pretty pretty big for his

Resume really because I just don’t think he’s done a lot of that really and they got Tyreek going in second half you know it was it was a little bit of sluggish first half um obviously Jaylen W in and out had the big 50 yard catch to you

Know start the game which you thought okay here’s gonna be a big game for Jaylen Wadd and and disappointing with the two separate injuries um next week’s gonna be really telling because if most’s out how much do they put on TOA because the Run game may not be there to save

Them and so I don’t know how many people can feel comfortable starting to him next week against Baltimore Baltimore comes out of this game playing well against the 49ers which is hard to say anyway but um you you can’t feel like like Jordan love to me is an easy start

Over to even with the receivers being banged up all right all right guys uh good stuff tonight merry Christmas everybody Jamie and I are going to record a little fft in five and uh good luck in all the games tomorrow and we’ll talk to you no be on the box score but

We will talk to you on Tuesday with the waiver wire on fantasy football today see you